New York, NY — Efrain Lopez is pleased to present PROOON — The Memory of Force, a solo exhibition by Danish-born, Berlin-based artist Amalie Jakobsen. This exhibition marks Jakobsen’s first solo presentation in New York City and follows two previous exhibitions with Efrain Lopez Gallery in Chicago. On view from November 15 to December 13, 2025, the exhibition features a selection of aluminum and steel sculptures from her PROOON series, reconfigured in a new spatial composition and shown alongside a large triangular form constructed from stretched latex, anchored within the architectural space.
This presentation extends the dialogue first initiated with PROOON (Efrain Lopez Gallery. Chicago, 2016), revisiting many of the original sculptures while engaging them within a new spatial and temporal frame. The works—folded, bent, and chromatically charged—retain the energy of their earlier gestures yet respond differently to light, scale, and proximity. Together, they form a constellation of relations that both recall and depart from the earlier installation, opening the work to new readings. Untitled #7 (2014) comprises a red equilateral triangle suspended between the gallery walls, constructed from bands of colored latex held in tension by steel and neodymium magnets. Positioned directly at the gallery’s entrance, the work confronts visitors upon arrival, transforming the act of entering into a spatial and perceptual experience. The work explores how chromatic and geometric configurations shape perception, establishing a dynamic interplay between body, space, and time.
Jakobsen’s use of latex introduces a visceral physicality absent in rigid materials. The latex both defines and reacts to the architectural boundaries—it stretches, flexes, and responds to environmental conditions like gravity and air movement. This tension imbues the space with a sense of living presence, as if the architecture itself were being held in a delicate equilibrium. Referencing the visual languages of architecture, design, and display, Untitled #7 reflects on how form and color guide the body’s navigation of space, shaping our sense of attention and orientation. The work makes visible the quiet systems through which built environments choreograph experience. Across this constellation of geometries and distortions. Jakobsen continues her sustained inquiry into how matter records action.
The PROOON sculptures—realized in folded aluminum and steel, coated in aerosol lacquer and acrylic paint—capture the residue of impact through their creased and contorted forms. Works such as Untitled (2016, aluminum and aerosol lacquer) and Untitled (2016, steel and acrylic paint) embody the moment when material gives way to gesture: where a plane becomes a fold, and structure becomes memory. Each surface reflects and refracts its surroundings, translating the spatial logic of Minimalism into something more animated and uncertain. These works sustain a tension between the measured and the impulsive, the industrial and the handmade, while refracting and fragmenting their environment to invite a renewed choreography of perception. As they occupy a different space and time, the conditions of seeing shift—what was once stable becomes fluid, what was hard-edged turns atmospheric.
PROOON — The Memory of Force situates Jakobsen’s practice within a lineage that bridges Constructivism and Minimalism, yet softens their austerity through gesture and sensibility. Her sculptures translate the rigor of those traditions into something more embodied and responsive—structures that remember the pressures exerted upon them. Nearly a decade later, their reappearance is not an act of repetition but of renewal: the same works, transformed by time, context, and the shifting body of the viewer. In this reanimation, Jakobsen reveals how form, once fixed, can remain alive—continuously negotiating the forces that shape it.
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